What do you wear at work?

Up here in Capital Hell, it's pretty much our choice. Dresses with white hose and white shoes (no colour restriction on dress). Scrubs I have seen in every colour and print. Usually only OR, dialysis, and ortho techs in the cast room get hospital issue.

Footwear, closed heels and toes due to WCB regulations. People wear clogs but WCB can and will refuse injuries due to footwear.

Marks WorkWearHouse have good lines and the prices are good (check the sale rack $9.99 top or bottom). Army and Navy sell scrub pieces as well. The little specialty stores are a good source of different styles or prints but tend to be more $$.

If you see something you like in the States by it but the prices are often the same. Just the styles vary.

VPL, least of my worries. Most tops cover my backside but I'm short. Dresses you don't worry as most are so roomy you can hide a multitude of sins.

You need room for two pens, a stethescope, roll of tape, scissors, etc. I like to keep a small wallet on me (d/l and some cash for breaks)

I find that I need four pockets to work. That's why you see alot of people wear warm up jackets.

Shoes are up to you. I've seen black shoes with dark pants, white or bone coloured with everything else. Some wear Nikes, others Nursemates. It's what your feet are comfortable in. Some of the Dr. Scholls are great, others are trash (but they seem to have disappeared from the shelves) Avoid the ones with the gel circle in the heel, they squish into lumps. Wallyworld sells them for around $45/pair.

What?? We get a discount? Learn something new everyday.

Pretty much everybody gets hospital issue except staff nurses! We usually beg them from ICU when we've had spillage onto us. Lately, they are hard to come by and we've been told to try the OR or go downstairs? First off, we usually have bodily fluids on us, so going through the hospital isn't a great idea. Second we don't know where to go downstairs is and finally porters get them, so we've actually scrounged a pair from a porter when needed.

Hospital issue at my place is hard to get and once we get it we try and keep it in our bags for emergencies after we've washed and dried them, so we don't have to go scrounging.

aah, we no have pixi machines....or enough ivacs...or stafff...or parking....

Hijack away - it's fascinating reading!!

That really bad in your place of work? Hope it wont be my workplace when I get to AB.

There ARE reasons people don't want to work here. There are a lot of nurses of both grades in this province who refuse to work in hospitals. I know four that I graduated with that left the profession completely (and that was within five years of graduation).

The grass isn't always greener on the other side.

Oh my - I don't know how to cope with ALL this choice!

I mean I come from a country where we wear school uniform (never had to choose clothes to wear to school) then started nursing where the uniform was issued by the hospital (no choice again) & I'm still in a hospital job - where the uniform is issued by the hospital!!!!

HELLLLLP!:rotfl: